“Company K, Capt. Edgar J. Sherman, Lawrence.
“This company was a new one, raised mostly in Lawrence upon the call of the Governor for five thousand one hundred days men. Recruiting commenced on the 11th day of July, the company was filled on the 12th, went into camp on the 13th, was mustered into service on the 14th and on the 15th and 16th the men were clothed, armed and equipped throughout and ready to move on the 17th—just six days after the first movement was made.
“Captain Sherman, says the Lawrence American (edited by Captain Merrill, who was at Port Hudson in the Fourth Regiment), under extraordinary difficulties, raised a company of nine months men, enlisting himself as a private, from which he was promoted to a Captaincy, and, as we personally know, no braver or more faithful officer has left our city. Always attentive to the needs of his men, and even when weak and emaciated with sickness, as we saw him at Port Hudson (in the 48th Massachusetts) leaving the hospital, against the positive prohibition of the surgeon, to lead his men in the assault. He was brevetted Major for ‘gallant and meritorious services.’”
ADDENDA
Col. Eben Francis Stone was Massachusetts representative in the Forty-ninth Congress, serving from 1881 to 1887. He died Jan. 22, 1895.
Capt. Edgar J. Sherman has for several years been Judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court.
Chaplain S. J. Spalding died Jan. 10, 1892.
Surgeon Yorick G. Hurd died Sept. 24, 1888. For several years he was superintendent of the House of Correction at Ipswich.
Major George Wheatland was detailed on the Court Martial on March 6, 1863. He was with the regiment when not engaged with the Court Martial daily until May 8, 1863. He was then detailed on General Augur’s staff and made Provost Judge of the department until relieved July 16, 1863, with accounts settled and orders to report in Boston.
Capt. J. Scott Todd died Jan. 26, 1902.